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👀 On our radar: Soar with migrating seabirds

💬 “The short film Voices of the Pacific Flyway documents how three human communities on North America’s west coast interact with – and are connected by – the flight paths of migratory seabirds.”

🎥 Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Aeon

🔗 https://aeon.co/videos/join-seabirds-as-they-migrate-encountering-human-communities-along-the-way

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Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/sustainable-building-embraces-mass-timber-skyscrapers

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The city of Reno, Nevada, is breaking records in ways it doesn’t like: A 2024 analysis of 241 cities showed that Reno has heated up faster than any other city in the United States.

While the country as a whole warmed by 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit on average between 1970 and 2023, Reno saw an increase of 7.6 degrees. A heat wave that hit Reno in July 2024 made for the hottest month in the Biggest Little City’s documented history.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/why-sizzling-cities-mapping-hot-spots-street-by-street

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In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/phage-therapy-helps-to-fight-antibiotic-resistance

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